Selected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smithyman, Kendrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand poetry--20th century.

Local Subjects:

New Zealand poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Summary:

<DIV></DIV>Described as the 'sly old fox of New Zealand verse', Kendrick Smithyman is a major New Zealand poet. In <I>Selected Poems</I> passionate commitment to the craft of language and to a sense of place stamp the 100 poems selected by Peter Simpson. Thick with wry wit, unexpected imagery and astonishing fluency, <I>Selected Poems</I> demonstrates Kendrick Smithyman's skill and achievement.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright ; Contents; Introduction; 1943-50; Lady As Swan; The Bay 1942; Walk Past Those Houses on a Sunday Morning; After; Kingfisher Song; August Struck Out Compelling; To Be Absent Without Leave; Bream Bay; Simple Ode; If I May Take My Leave; This Blonde Girl Air with Variation; Time in Your Maiden Head; The Cloud, the Man, the Dream; Icarus; Poem for a Winter Birth; from CONSIDERATIONS; Solitary cell, Kingston; Headstone Bay; High in late afternoon a dove; Walk, boy, that soft ground softly; Arrival at noon; Der Doppelgänger; Dirge for Two Clavichords and Bowler Hat; 1951-59

OccasionsVision by Mather's Farm; Incident at Matauri; A Note on the Social Arts; Inheritance; Something Childish; Two Sitting Late at Night; Gathering the Toheroa; The Village, Retrospective View; Sunday Morning; Muriwai 1957; Zoo; Felled Macrocarpas; Waikato Railstop; VIGNETTES OF THE MAORI WARS; Mangatawhiri Stream; Baptism of Fire 1862; The Attack on Rangiaowhia; How to Dispose of Ajax; SNAPSHOTS FROM The Pigbreeders' Gazette; The Pigman Visionary; The Pigman Militant; The Pigman Amorous; Climbing in the Himalaya; Speaking to the Youngest; Dvorak, Quintet No.3 in E Flat Major; Blackleg

A Thing RememberedParable of Two Talents; Pasiphae's Daughters; 1966-70; Flying to Palmerston; Research Project; Colville; English Effigies; Selby; Field Notes; Near Ellon; Reflections from Golden Gate (1); Reflections from Golden Gate (2); The Seal in the Dolphin Pool; An Ordinary Day Beyond Kaitaia; A Showing Forth by Day of the Nankeen Kestrel; Tomarata; Where Waikawau Stream Comes Out; 1971-80; Intersecting Plains; Herd; Idyll; The Simple Life in New Zealand 1886; Circus at the Barber's Shop; Biography; Getting to Sleep; The Visiting Professor's Reception; Movements for Coastal Voices

HitchingAbout Setting a Jar on a Hill; Resort; Backwaters; Signs; Reading the Maps An Academic Exercise; After Zhivago; Skateboarding with Lewis Carroll; Stories about Wooden Keyboards; The Last Moriori; 1981-86; God Rest You Merry at Halloween in Hamilton Ontario; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day in Hamilton Ontario; ELDERS; Peehi/Best; Baucke; Rinaua/Lindauer; Pomare; Te Rangi Hiroa/Buck; Deconstructing; 395; Klynham; Pasternak: The Making of a Poet; Death in Venice: Diaghilev; A Birthday Poem; Schooling; Screen Plays 1/2/3; Trout Quintet; Pieces; Published Collections by Kendrick Smithyman

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781775586098

177558609X

OCLC:

863821864